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No. 49.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH OCTOBER, 1898,

號九十四筝 日五十月九年戌戊 日九十二月十年八十九百八千一

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 484.

VOL. XLIV.

簿四十四第

The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.

By Command,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th October, 1898.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

2nd September, 1898.

SIR,I have the honour to transmit to you, for information in the Colony under your Govern- ment, a copy of a paper presented to both Houses of Parliament containing the exchange of Notes establishing a provisional modus vivendi between the United Kingdom and Belgium pending the con- clusion of a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the two Countries.

The arrangement does not extend to the Colonies or Foreign Possessions of Her Majesty, but if any Colonial Government should intimate to me its wish to enter into a similar arrangement, such a wish would be made known to the Belgian Government.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

HONGKONG.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES ESTABLISHING A PROVISIONAL MODUS VIVENDI BETWEEN THE United KingdoM AND BELGIUM PENDING THE CONCLUSION OF A TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION

BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

No. 1.

M. de Favereau to Sir F. Plunkett. (Translation.)

The Undersigned, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Belgium, has the honour to inform His Excellency Sir Francis Plunkett, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that, pending the signature of a definitive Treaty, His Majesty's Government undertakes, en condition of reciprocity, not to modify, after the 29th July, 1898, the system actually applied to the subjects and products of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unless previous notice shall have been given three months beforehand to Her Majesty's Government.